Browner
Carol Browner
Carol Browner has had a lifelong commitment to securing environmental and public health protections. She has worked in government, the private sector and with non-profits. She has served two presidents, a governor, and two senators.
In her role as Assistant to President Obama and Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, she oversaw the coordination of environmental, energy, climate, transport, and related policy across the U.S. federal government. During her tenure, the White House secured the largest investment ever in clean energy and established the national clean car standards that included both new automobile fuel efficiency standards and the first ever climate pollution reductions for vehicles.
From 1993 through 2001, Ms. Browner served as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. As Administrator, she adopted stringent air pollution standards for soot and smog; including for the first time, a fine particle clean air standard; spearheaded the reauthorization of the Safe Drinking Water Act as well as the Food Quality Protection Act. She was known for working with both environmentalists and industry to set scientific-based public health protections while providing businesses with important flexibilities in how to meet those standards. She worked across the agency to ensure a focus on protecting the most vulnerable, particularly children.
From 1991 through 1993, Ms. Browner served as Secretary of Environmental Regulation in Florida, where she launched one of the largest ecological restoration projects ever attempted in the United States to restore the natural flow of water to the Everglades.
Today she works with the private sector helping to navigate government policy, including building public private partnerships. She is Chair of the Board of the League of Conservation Voters. She also serves on the board of Bunge Limited, where she chairs the Sustainability Committee of the board. She is Senior Of Counsel at Covington and Burling.
Carol splits her time between the Green Mountains of Vermont and Washington, DC.